Sentences with phrase «modular reactors which»

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There are some 50 modular designs being developed globally, and while many are traditional light water reactors, which use water to cool the reactor core, others gain efficiency by using coolants such as gas, which allow reactors to reach higher temperatures.

«Yeah, there's less concrete and, yeah, there's less steel in the reactor vessel,» says nuclear engineer Eric Loewen, chief consulting engineer at GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, which is proposing a modular fast reactor to help the U.K. with its plutonium problem.

«The Obama Administration and the Energy Department are committed to an all - of - the - above energy strategy that develops every source of American energy, including nuclear power,» said Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in a statement announcing the funding, which aims to get such modular reactors hooked into the grid by 2022.

And the birth of small, modular nuclear reactors — which can be built at lower cost and produce no greenhouse gas emissions — could play a significant role in helping to balance energy outflows from renewable sources.

The one possible turn in the otherwise rough road in the West could be a shift in technology toward small, modular reactors (SMRs), which U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Secretary Ernest Moniz said could be deployed as soon as 2022 with his agency's support.

In 1968 I watched the launch of a Polaris missile submarine in Birkenhead — it was powered by... a small modular nuclear reactor — all nuclear subs (missile or not) are powered by such systems — which have been around for + / - 60 years.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy is developing the Power Reactor Innovative Small Modular (PRISM) reactor, which uses liquid sodium as a coolant.

All stars are aligned for your state to incubate and lead the rise of the small modular reactor industry which, in my considered opinion, is destined to become the dominant worldwide source of clean energy in this century.

Also, at the WGA meeting, the governors announced a 10 - year energy vision which included as one of its goals, finding ways to accelerate the introduction of small modular reactors into the commercial marketplace.

Small modular reactors - which are approximately one - third the size of current nuclear power plants - have compact, scalable designs that are expected to offer a host of safety, construction and economic benefits.

South Africa planned new reactors include the untested Pebble Bed Modular Reactor, which will cost an estimated 14 billion Rand (US$ 1.58 billion).

From the article:... A British parliamentary committee on Wednesday will endorse small modular nuclear reactors, which some view as the perfect answer to the energy needs of the future.

The Obama administration deserves credit for authorizing funding for two small modular reactors, which will be built at the Savannah River site in South Carolina.

These include «small modular reactors» which proponents claim are safer and more cost - effective, but which introduce their own issues.

Small modular reactors won't be available for another decade at least, or possibly longer, and so couldn't play any large role in The Experiment, even if Californians accepted them, which they won't.